black holes, research, space

Did You Know That Some Black Holes Can Erase Your Past?

In the real world, your past uniquely determines your future. If a physicist knows how the universe starts, he or she can calculate its future for all time and all space. But a UC Berkeley mathematician has found some types of black holes in which this law breaks down. If someone were to venture into ...

Troy Oakes

A black hole event horizon.

Geologists Discover Meteorite Hit the Isle of Skye 60 Million Years Ago

While exploring volcanic rocks on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, geologists made a discovery literally out of this world — mineral forms that have only ever been found in space. The minerals were thrown out from a 60 million-year-old meteorite impact, previously unknown to scientists. This makes it the first known meteorite impact designated within the British Paleogene ...

Troy Oakes

‘Smoke Rings’ Spotted Off the Australian Coast From Space

Two “smoke rings” have been discovered off the Australian coast, leaving researchers believing that they could “suck up” small marine creatures carrying them at high speed for long distances across the ocean. Researchers from the University of Liverpool spotted the equivalent of smoke-rings in the Tasman Sea, off the southwest of Australia and in the ...

Troy Oakes

Space Plane Passes Latest Test

Hardcore science fiction junkies might be disappointed by 2017 — we don’t have flying cars or a base on the moon yet. We don’t even have hoverboards, much to the disappointment of Back to the Future fans. Thankfully, we are getting a little bit closer to becoming a space-faring species with the latest successful test ...

Megan Nichols